{"id":7014,"date":"2023-11-11T05:03:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T06:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7014"},"modified":"2023-11-11T07:07:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T07:07:33","slug":"wisconsin-assembly-turns-focus-to-election-reforms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7014","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Assembly Turns Focus to Election Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Benjamin Yount<\/h5>\n

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Few of the election reforms Wisconsin Republicans plan to pass will likely get the governor\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n

The State Assembly late Thursday approved nearly a dozen or so pieces of legislation that deal with how people vote and how elections are run in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no way that Wisconsin should experience what it did in 2020 in 2024,\u201d Rep. Scott Krug, R-Nekoosa, said.<\/p>\n

Krug (pictured above), who is the chairman of the Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections said the Republican election reforms either look to close loopholes exposed during the 2020 election or prevent new loopholes from being exploited.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a great effort on everybody\u2019s part to try to make sure that election administration is changed permanently in the state of Wisconsin,\u201d Krug said.<\/p>\n

Krug said that includes Democratic support for a few ideas, including a plan that would send voters a text message when they request and return their absentee ballots and the plan to allow local election clerks to count absentee ballots on the Monday before election day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy do we wait until Tuesday night to process absentee ballots,\u201d Rep. Ron Tusler, R-Harrison, asked. \u201cOur clerks can process those ballots just as well on Monday, and our observers can observe those ballots being processed better during daylight hours during normal business hours than in the middle of the night on Tuesday night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tusler\u2019s plan would have central count locations, like in Milwaukee, start the process of counting absentee ballots ahead of time. Milwaukee\u2019s election clerk has said in the past they could have all of their absentee ballots counted on the Monday before election day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we go to bed on election night, we should have a solid, unofficial result of the results of the election,\u201d Tusler said.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Gov. Tony Evers on Thursday said the governor will sign Tusler\u2019s early vote count legislation.<\/p>\n

The Assembly also passed three proposed constitutional amendments that cleared the Senate earlier this week.<\/p>\n

They deal with voter ID, who can vote in Wisconsin elections and a ban on the use of private outside money.<\/p>\n

Rep. Tyler August, R-Lake Geneva, said Republicans are pushing those amendments to voters as a way to \u201cavoid Gov. Evers\u2019 veto pen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The voter eligibility and private money amendments will go to voters next fall.<\/p>\n

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Benjamin Yount is a contributor to The Center Square.\u00a0<\/a>
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